Swimming breaks pair of pool information in twin meet at Tufts

MEDFORD, Mass. — The Bates swimming and diving program battled a pair of ranked Tufts groups in a twin meet on Saturday, with the boys’s workforce breaking a pair of pool information in a 172.5-97.5 loss to the No. 12 nationally ranked Jumbos and junior Sarah Palmer profitable once more for the ladies’s workforce in a 178-90 loss to No. 9 Tufts.

Men’s Highlights

• Junior Tim Johnson (Brewster, Mass.), senior captain Marrich Somridhivej (South Windsor, Conn.), senior captain Max Cory (Dublin, Calif.), and junior John Weigel (Iowa City, Iowa) teamed as much as break the Tufts pool report with their profitable time of 3:19.46 within the 400-yard medley relay, out-touching Tufts by the slimmest of margins because the Jumbos ‘A’ workforce completed the race in 3:19.48.
• Sophomore Nate Oppenheim (Easton, Conn.) led a 1-2-3 Bates end within the 50-yard breaststroke, touching the wall in 25.92 seconds to set a brand new pool report. Junior Noah Katz (Hallowell, Maine) was the runner-up in 26.06 seconds and senior Kailer Tom (Daly City, Calif.) took third in 26.36 seconds.
• Johnson gained the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 23.85 seconds and in addition grabbed first place within the 200-yard backstroke in 1:51.55.
• Cory gained the 50-yard freestyle in 21.21 seconds.
• Somridhivej was the runner-up within the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:03.01.
• Oppenheim was the runner-up within the 50-yard butterfly in 22.86 seconds.
• Weigel was the runner-up within the 200-yard IM in 1:56.55.

Women’s Highlights

• Palmer (Brunswick, Maine) gained the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:22.12 and was the runner-up within the 50-yard breaststroke in 29.97 seconds.
• First-year Lily Dunn (New Canaan, Conn.) was the runner-up within the 50-yard backstroke, touching the wall in 27.86 seconds. She took fifth within the 50-yard freestyle in 24.88 seconds.
• Sophomore Erin Barisonek (New Vernon, N.J.) took third within the 50 again in 27.95 seconds.
• First-year Katherine Reed (Wenham, Mass.) took fourth within the 200-yard freestyle in 1:58.38 and sixth within the 100-yard freestyle in 54.36 seconds.
• First-year Grace Knight-Meister (Fort Collins, Colo.) debuted within the 500-yard freestyle with a powerful time of 5:19.74, incomes 9 factors for the Bobcats.
• Senior McKayla Kendall (Bangor, Maine) scored 9 factors for the Bobcats within the 50-yard butterfly, posting the third-fastest time on the meet along with her mark of 26.52 seconds.

Cory, Somridhivej, Kendall, and senior captain Lianna Rosman (Bethesda, Md.) teamed up for the combined 200-yard freestyle relay, inserting third in 1:30.87.

The Bobcats are again in motion for Senior Night at Tarbell Pool on Friday, Jan. 30 once they host the University of New England and Maine Maritime Academy at 6 p.m.